Cyprus
EU member states are becoming increasingly inward-looking and eager to promote aid policies which prioritise foreign or domestic policy objectives. These are the main conclusions of the annual AidWatch report by CONCORD, released on May 19th in Brussels.
Despite being the world’s biggest aid donor, only nine countries met their EU aid targets in 2010, with the bloc as a whole falling...
With €53.8 billion (0.43% of its GDP), the European Union’s official development aid (ODA) reached a record level in 2010, up by €4.5 billion on 2009. “The EU remains incontestably the world’s leading donor,” declared Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, while admitting that it has failed to honour its pledge to jointly allocate 0.56% of its gross domestic...
In the run up to the September Review conference in New York on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the European Commission has drafted a staff working paper on ‘More and Better Education in Developing Countries’, http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/SEC2010_0121_EN.pdf) and is in the midst of drawing up other thematic papers on health, food security, gender...
Mabousso Thiam. Director of the Centre for the Development of Enterprise
Mabousso Thiam was appointed Director of the Centre for the Development of Enterprise (CDE*) in March 2009. In less than a year, he has left his mark on this organisation which promotes private sector cooperation between the European Union and the group of African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.
The signing, on 2...
Rolandas Kvietauskas, director of ‘Vilnius-European Capital of Culture 2009’*, spoke to us about how the programme, supported by the European Commission and branded as Culture Live by organisers, journeys through the many diverse and rich influences of Lithuania, a crossroads for East and West European cultures. In the post since February 2009, he says Culture Live stretches from...
At the EU’s most easterly edge at the centre of Europe
Vilnius, one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, is the capital of Lithuania, one of three Baltic States. In geographical terms, is with Bucharest ( Romania) and Nicosia (Cyprus) one of the EU’s most easterly capitals, yet according to studies done by French cartographers, it sits at the centre of Europe. A look at...
Has culture overcome the checkpoints?
Two and a half million tourists visit Cyprus every year. It’s an island that seems to have something for everyone. Some are attracted by the silence and serenity of the archaeological sites, others by the beautiful beaches or snow-covered summits. There are wonderful museums and other cultural attractions for art-lovers and places of fun and...
Interview by Hegel Goutier
How would you attract someone to Nicosia?
If we’re talking about doing business, Cyprus has always been a centre of services and used to be a business centre, even prior to accession to the EU. We have a flourishing offshore industry.
Now, following EU membership, we have the lowest corporate taxes in the EU so many people from both within and outside...
Neshe Yasin
Poet, female, Turkish Cypriot*
There is confusion over identity in Cyprus. There are vertical and horizontal definitions. There are religions: Christian and Muslim. And then there are nationalities: Turkish and Greek. The British asked people to define themselves. Some of the so-called Turkish Cypriots were black Africans, others probably Turkmen rebels brought here who...
To set up its development policy, Cyprus has mobilised both its development department in its Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Planning Bureau of the government whose task was to reconstruct the country’s economy in the wake of the Turkish invasion of the island.
Emmanuela Lambrianides, Senior Coordination Officer, Planning Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs*
Initial phase: Sub-...
EU member states are becoming increasingly inward-looking and eager to promote aid policies which prioritise foreign or domestic policy objectives. These are the main conclusions of the annual AidWatch report by CONCORD, released on May 19th in Brussels.
Despite being the world’s biggest aid donor, only nine countries met their EU aid targets in 2010, with the bloc as a whole falling...
With €53.8 billion (0.43% of its GDP), the European Union’s official development aid (ODA) reached a record level in 2010, up by €4.5 billion on 2009. “The EU remains incontestably the world’s leading donor,” declared Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, while admitting that it has failed to honour its pledge to jointly allocate 0.56% of its gross domestic...
In the run up to the September Review conference in New York on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the European Commission has drafted a staff working paper on ‘More and Better Education in Developing Countries’, http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/SEC2010_0121_EN.pdf) and is in the midst of drawing up other thematic papers on health, food security, gender...
Mabousso Thiam. Director of the Centre for the Development of Enterprise
Mabousso Thiam was appointed Director of the Centre for the Development of Enterprise (CDE*) in March 2009. In less than a year, he has left his mark on this organisation which promotes private sector cooperation between the European Union and the group of African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.
The signing, on 2...
Rolandas Kvietauskas, director of ‘Vilnius-European Capital of Culture 2009’*, spoke to us about how the programme, supported by the European Commission and branded as Culture Live by organisers, journeys through the many diverse and rich influences of Lithuania, a crossroads for East and West European cultures. In the post since February 2009, he says Culture Live stretches from...
At the EU’s most easterly edge at the centre of Europe
Vilnius, one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, is the capital of Lithuania, one of three Baltic States. In geographical terms, is with Bucharest ( Romania) and Nicosia (Cyprus) one of the EU’s most easterly capitals, yet according to studies done by French cartographers, it sits at the centre of Europe. A look at...
Has culture overcome the checkpoints?
Two and a half million tourists visit Cyprus every year. It’s an island that seems to have something for everyone. Some are attracted by the silence and serenity of the archaeological sites, others by the beautiful beaches or snow-covered summits. There are wonderful museums and other cultural attractions for art-lovers and places of fun and...
Interview by Hegel Goutier
How would you attract someone to Nicosia?
If we’re talking about doing business, Cyprus has always been a centre of services and used to be a business centre, even prior to accession to the EU. We have a flourishing offshore industry.
Now, following EU membership, we have the lowest corporate taxes in the EU so many people from both within and outside...
Neshe Yasin
Poet, female, Turkish Cypriot*
There is confusion over identity in Cyprus. There are vertical and horizontal definitions. There are religions: Christian and Muslim. And then there are nationalities: Turkish and Greek. The British asked people to define themselves. Some of the so-called Turkish Cypriots were black Africans, others probably Turkmen rebels brought here who...
To set up its development policy, Cyprus has mobilised both its development department in its Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Planning Bureau of the government whose task was to reconstruct the country’s economy in the wake of the Turkish invasion of the island.
Emmanuela Lambrianides, Senior Coordination Officer, Planning Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs*
Initial phase: Sub-...
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